Validity and Conditions of Marriage — Marriage

• How a Nikah Is Established
• Offer and Acceptance Three Times
• A Form of Offer and Acceptance for Nikah
• The Procedure for the Nikah of Children
• Offer and Acceptance by a Minor with the Guardian’s Permission
• Offer and Acceptance for a Minor Girl through Her Father
• Nikah When Offer and Acceptance Are Made in a State of Trembling
• Offer and Acceptance of Nikah in Jest and Offer and Acceptance of Sale in Jest
• Is It Necessary to Mention the Father’s Name at the Nikah?
• The Groom Left without Accepting and Offer and Acceptance Were Made with Another Young Man: Whose Nikah Is Valid?
• Offer and Acceptance with a Mahr of Five Thousand Concealed under the Hand
• Nikah with a Band Tied over the Eyes
• The Nikah of a Mute Person
• The Nikah of a Mute Person
• The Nikah of a Blind and Deaf Person
• Nikah with a Blind Man
• Having the Groom Recite the Kalima and Pray Two Rak‘as at the Time of Nikah
• Punishment of the Abductor: Boycott by the Biradari (a kinship or caste community)
• Breaching a Condition after the Nikah
• Setting Conditions in a Nikah
• Setting a Condition in a Nikah
• A Non-Muslim Woman Embraces Islam after a Court Marriage: Istibra’ of the Womb for a Renewed Nikah
• Civil Marriage
• Is a Woman’s Statement “I Am Without a Husband” Accepted?
• A second nikah without seeing the divorce document
• A second nikah for a widow
• A second nikah after three talaqs
• A second nikah without the first wife's permission does not annul the first nikah
• A second marriage after accepting Islam
• A secret nikah
• A nikah kept secret from relatives
• Officiating the nikah of a married woman after enquiry is not an offence
• Permission for Nikah with One up to Four Wives
• If Nikah Was Contracted Twice with Two Women, Does It Count as Four?
• Divorcing One’s Wife and Marrying Her Sister for Some Benefit
• Nikah into the Family the Late Wife Had Forbidden
• Mentioning Food, Clothing, etc. in the Nikah
• Running Away with Another’s Wife, and Nikah after the Husband’s Talaq Once the ‘Idda Ends
• A Girl Ran Away and Contracted Nikah with a Young Man
• After the Nikah the Wife Ran Away with a Chamar Servant
• Sheltering a Niece Turned out of Her Home for Immorality
• Remarrying a Former Divorcee out of Necessity When the Parents Are Displeased
• A Nikah Concluded at the Young Man’s Home
• The Effect on the Nikah of Changing the Father’s Name in the Register
• It emerged after the nikah that the wife's mental balance is not sound
• Divorcing the first wife is not required for a second marriage
• Nikah before circumcision
• The nikah of a three-year-old girl
• The nikah of a ten-year-old girl with a thirty-year-old man
• The nikah of a woman who lived for a year with a Hindu
• A husband lost his wife in gambling: does the nikah remain?
• Aborting an illegitimate pregnancy does not end the nikah
• Nikah when there is no menstruation and the breasts are undeveloped
• Nikah during postnatal bleeding (nifas)
• Nikah during nifas and menstruation
• Nikah during nifas after giving birth to a child of zina
• Nikah by mistake with an unwanted girl
• Marrying a Woman Who Says She Is a Widow
• The Nikah of a Man and a Woman Who Never Pray
• The Nikah Is Valid Even If the Mahr Exceeds the Husband’s Means
• A Nikah in a Church (Kanisa) Is Concluded
• The Bride Gave No Consent to the Nikah, Yet Departed to Her Husband and Then Fled
• The Nikah of a Young Man Who Speaks Little
• Nikah with the Intention of Divorce
• Marrying the Daughter of a Woman of Ill Repute
• Nikah in which a friend put the thumbprint in the register
• Nikah with a person of doubtful physical constitution
• Denying the nikah out of fear of father and brother
• Nikah after abduction, and several other issues
• Supplement to the preceding query: a minor’s nikah, court annulment and the imamate of the officiant
• For nikah, hearing the offer and acceptance is necessary
• Having the kalima recited at the nikah gathering and taking offer and acceptance from both spouses
• Having the kalima recited at the time of nikah
• Scattering dried dates at a nikah and entering the nikah in a register
• Is a nikah not valid if it is not entered in the register?
• Entering the nikah in the register
• Nikah Without Having the Kalima Recited
• Nikah Is Not Concluded with Allah as the Witness
• Making Allah, the Messenger and the Angels Witnesses to a Nikah
• Nikah with Allah and the Messenger Made Witnesses
• What Is the Minimum Number of Witnesses for a Nikah?
• Nikah with the Father and Brother as Witnesses
• The Testimony of the Father and Brother in a Nikah
• The Testimony of One Man and Two Women in a Nikah
• Nikah with the Testimony of Women Alone
• Nikah before a Gathering without Designating Witnesses
• Offer and Acceptance in the Presence of Witnesses Is Necessary for a Nikah
• Witnesses Are Needed When Renewing a Nikah Too
• The Testimony of a Brother and a Sister’s Husband, and Discrepancy in the Witnesses’ Statements
• The Ruling on the Testimony of a Fasiq
• The Woman Denies Consent to the Nikah and the Man Claims It: Whose Witnesses Are Accepted?
• Nikah When the Qadi, the Witnesses and the Groom Do Not Observe the Shari‘a
• If Some Affirm the Nikah and Others Deny It, What Should Be Done?
• Two Men Claiming Nikah with One Woman
• The Status of the Khutba in Nikah
• The Nikah Khutba Is a Sunna, Not Fard
• The Presence of a Qadi Is Not Necessary for the Nikah Khutba
• The Nikah Khutba Comes Before the Offer and Acceptance
• Which Comes First — the Khutba or the Offer and Acceptance? And the Qadi and the Agent Being Different Persons
• One Khutba for Two Nikahs
• Is the Nikah Khutba Delivered Sitting or Standing?
• The Nikah Khutba While Sitting
• The Nikah Khutba While Standing
• Mentioning Maintenance (Nafaqa) and the Like in the Nikah Khutba
• Announcing the Nikah
• The Appointed Imam Had the Nikah Performed by Someone Else
• Who Should Be Asked to Perform the Nikah?
• A Nikah Performed by a Beardless Qadi
• A Blind Man May Also Perform the Nikah
• Having a Brahmin Perform the Nikah
• Having a Shi‘i or Others Perform the Nikah
• The Words of Offer and Acceptance
• How Many Times Should the Words of Nikah Be Said?
• A Nikah Is Not Concluded by a Pledge Made with a Hand on a Pocket Copy of the Qur’an
• Accepting a Nikah by a Nod of the Head or by the Word “Agreed”
• Nikah by Blowing on Sherbet and Drinking a Sip
• Is a Nikah Concluded by Saying “I Gave the Girl for the Sake of God”?
• Nikah with the Words “I Give Myself” and the Testimony of Non-Upright People at a Nikah
• An Acknowledgement of Nikah Is Not Sufficient
• A Woman’s Saying “I Will Live with So-and-So” Is Not Nikah
• Nikah with the Word “Wage”
• Nikah by Means of a Letter
• Nikah through a Letter
• Nikah by Means of Writing
• Nikah in the Form of a Puzzle
• Nikah by Telephone
• Shighar (Exchange) Marriage
• Marrying Off a Daughter on the Condition of Marrying the Son-in-Law’s Sister
• Exchange Marriage
• Discord Arose in an Exchange Marriage
• Nikah Under Coercion
• Nikah Concluded Through Coercion
• Forced Nikah of an Adult Woman
• Nikah by Compulsion
• Consent to Nikah under Coercion
• Forced Nikah of a Girl
• Forced Nikah of a Widow
• Marrying Off a Widow Under Coercion
• Parents Forcing a Son to Marry Where He Does Not Wish
• Forced Nikah of an Adult Girl
• Is the Nikah Temporary If the Bride Does Not Know of the Man’s Intention to Limit Its Term?
• Rulings on Mut‘a Marriage

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